LL-L: "Phonology" LOWLANDS-L, 31.JAN.2000 (03) [E]

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From: John M. Tait [jmtait at altavista.net]
Subject: LL-L: "Phonology" LOWLANDS-L, 28.JAN.2000 (02) [E/German]

Geordie Halliday wrote:

>Apart from the some forms of Highland English, Scots /l/ is dark in all
>position - one of the distinguishing differences between Ireland and
>Scotland. (Irish /l/ is typically light.)

Not in Shetlandic, however, where you get e.g. hail [he at l], with velarised
[l], but hael (meaning 'whole', pronounced variously [hel], [hEIl], [hil],
according to regular shifts of [e] before voiced consonants)with
palatalised [l].

To add to Andy's list of metathesised words, you get 'scrat' and 'scart'
(scratch) in different parts of Scotland.

John M. Tait.

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